Author: InvestAdvocate

UBA Heralds Festive Season, Lights Up Lagos Marina Garden

December 3, 2024/UBA Plc United Bank for Africa, through its Corporate Social Responsibility Arm, the UBA Foundation, on Monday, held its annual Garden Light-Up ceremony to kick-start the festive season.   The dazzling ceremony, held at the United Bank for Africa (UBA) head office in Lagos, brought together staff, customers, […]

SEC Charges Ken Leech, Former Co-Chief Investment Officer of Western Asset Management Co., with Fraud

December 3, 2024/US SEC On November 25, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Stephen Kenneth (“Ken”) Leech, the former co-chief investment officer (CIO) of registered investment adviser Western Asset Management Company LLC or WAMCO, for engaging in a multi-year scheme to allocate favorable trades to certain portfolios, while allocating […]

SEC Charges Former CEO of Biotherapeutics Company with Misleading Investors about Status of FDA Reviews

December 3, 2024/US SEC The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed settled charges against Maurizio Chiriva-Internati, the former CEO of Houston-based biotherapeutics company, Kiromic BioPharma, Inc., for failing to disclose material information about Kiromic’s two cancer fighting drug candidates before, during, and after a July 2, 2021 follow-on public offering […]